Photos: Bullying cases that sparked public outrage

Jennifer Livingston: The western Wisconsin television anchorwoman this week went public on TV about a man who wrote her an email criticizing her weight. She called him a bully. She's telling young viewers not to allow bullies to define their self-worth. Livingston didn't identify the man, who wrote that he was surprised to see her physical condition hadn't improved for years. He wrote that he hopes she doesn't consider herself a suitable example for young people, especially girls. Click here to view the video on Livingston's take

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Robin Tomlin: Tomlin recently asked the North Vancouver school district to change the entry of Argyle secondary's 1970 annual and to apologize for allowing it to be printed. In the annual, next to the photo of Tomlin - a shy, skinny teen and a victim of intense bullying - is just one word: "Fag." Four decades later, the word still stings."I feel like, emotionally, they've been beating me with a stick for 42 years," he says. Tomlin, now retired in the Kootenays and suffering from terminal liver disease, wants closure. supplied photo
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Jamie Hubley: The 15-year-old Ottawa high school student was bullied and teased because he was openly gay. Before committing suicide in October 2011, Jamie wrote on his blog: "I'm tired of life, really. It's so hard, I'm sorry, I can't take it anymore." His death drew national attention to the seriousness and tragic consequences of bullying. Photo: Allan Hubley and his son Jamie...
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In March 2012 a New Jersey jury convicted Dharun Ravi (left) of hate crimes after he used a computer webcam to view his Rutgers University roommate kissing another man in a case that sparked a national outcry over gay bullying. The roommate, Tyler Clementi, 18, jumped off the George Washington Bridge days after learning that his gay encounter was seen by webcam. Ravi had invited others to watch the feed from the camera mounted on top of his computer. Reuters
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Megan Taylor Meier (November 6, 1992 - October 17, 2006) was an American teenager from Dardenne Prairie, Missouri, who committed suicide by hanging. Her parents prompted an investigation into the death and her suicide was attributed to cyber-bullying through the social networking website MySpace. ..
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Phoebe Prince: Prince, 15, was a recent immigrant from Ireland, and lived with her family in South Hadley, Mass., and in 2009 she enrolled at South Hadley High School. Trouble began after Prince briefly dated a popular football player from her school. A group of seven girls at her school, later dubbed the "Mean Girls" by prosecutors began a bullying campaign against her knocking her books out of her hands, throwing things at her, sending her threatening text messages and calling her "Irish slut" and "whore" on popular social networking web sites. On January 14, 2010, the bullies threw a can at Phoebe while she was walking home from school. She went home and hanged herself. On the day Phoebe died one of the accused bullies entered "accomplished" as her status on her Facebook page. ..
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Asher Brown: The Texas eighth-grader killed himself in Sept. 2010. He shot himself in the head after enduring what his mother and stepfather say was constant harassment from four other students at middle school in the Cypress-Fairbanks Independent School District. Brown’s family said he was "bullied to death" — picked on for his small size, his religion and because he did not wear designer clothes and shoes. Kids also accused him of being gay. The 13-year-old's parents said they had complained about the bullying to the school but nothing was done. ..
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Karen Klein: Klein, 68, a school bus monitor in Greece, N.Y. was tyrannized by teenage bullies on the bus. A video was posted online of her fielding profane taunts and outright threats from a group of middle school students during a bus run last June. A Toronto man's campaign to give the grandmother a vacation from her ended with Klein receiving a cheque for $703,000. The money was raised via Internet donations. Steven Senne
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Jamey Rodemeyer: (March 21, 1997 - September 18, 2011) Rodemeyer was a bisexual teenager living near Buffalo, New York. He was known for his activism against homophobia and videos on YouTube to help victims of homophobic bullying. He committed suicide by hanging as a result of constant bullying. He had been inspired to help othes by Lady Gaga. Before his death, he posted a final update on Twitter directed to Lady Gaga. The tweet read, "@ladygaga bye mother monster, thank you for all you have done, paws up forever.”..
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Ryan Patrick Halligan (December 18, 1989 - October 7, 2003). Halligan, from Essex Junction, Vermont committed suicide at the age of 13 after being bullied by his classmates directly and online. Halligan was repeatedly sent homophobic instant messages, and was "threatened, taunted and insulted incessantly". ..
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Whitney Kropp: The Michigan teen’s fellow students nominated her for the school homecoming court as a prank in September 2012. But she attended coronation anyway and was surrounded by cheering fans. Here Kropp, third from left, waits for the ceremony to begin, Friday, Sept. 28, 2012, at the Ogemaw Heights High Schools homecoming football game against the Cadillac Vikings in West Branch, Mich...
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On Sept. 28, 2012 the Supreme Court of Canada denounced cyberbullying and gave a Nova Scotia teenager anonymity to pursue those who ridiculed her. Two years ago, the teen, who was 15 at the time, launched a defamation action over a fake, sexualized Facebook profile created in March 2010 and removed from the web May 21, 2010. The provincial courts had refused to allow her to proceed anonymously to uncover the identity of the person, or people, who created the webpage. Joerg Koch
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